Leicester Art Tour – Art Stop At Olivette Farm

Olivette Farm Art Stop On The Leicester Art Tour

We invite you to join us for the annual Come to Leicester (“Les-ter”) studio tour. The Come to Leicester studio tour is held every year on the third weekend in August and will take place this year on August 17-18, 2024 (10:00 – 5:00 each day). The Tour is self-guided, and maps are available in the Brochure. This year, we are excited to announce that Olivette Farm will host 6 artists. Join us for a weekend buzzing with creativity on the Farm. Click here for the full Tour map: mapspread2024b

Food Truck: Mehfil Indian Cuisine

Beverage Truck: Refresh Beverage Company

Meet The Artists Showing At Olivette Farm:

Sara Bell

Adrienne Bloom

Meet the artist, Adrienne Blum, at Olivette farm and enjoy her collection of enamel switch plate covers. She creates her custom switch plates by sketching and then enameling the images to enhance your decor. Her process uses a kiln to melt glass fret onto metal switch plates and art tiles.

She creates her custom switch-plates by sketching and then enameling the images to enhance your decor. Her process uses a kiln to melt glass fret onto metal switchplates and art tiles.

This is her once-a-year local event. Come and find something to Inspire or celebrate your home.

Kevin Andrew

I want to make a difference in this world and searching for how. I paint, write, and collaborate to force myself to self reflect and grow. My art is an extension of my thoughts, emotions, and biases (conscious + unconscious).

Every piece has an underlying story, motivation, or therapy session I’m working through. I love seeing which work resonants with who and why. I feel my vulnerability and openness with my work to the world is something that helps set me apart.

Victoria Miceli

My art playfully pushes the boundaries between darkness and humor. Incorporating elements from life and death. Using watercolor, acrylic, pyrography, and pen and ink to portray those things that inspire and delight me. Born and raised in New Orleans, my cultural heritage heavily influences my work.

I was born and raised in New Orleans, Louisiana and my art is heavily influenced by my culture and the city. I relocated to Leicester a few years ago, I am inspired by the beauty in the natural world around me. I have always been drawn to the Macabre and dark nature of things, but I am also the class clown type and that is very reflective in my work. I began painting at a very young age, beginning with Vampires, with whom I was obsessed. My mom got me Private art lessons and I continued my art instruction in high school and college.

I graduated from Loyola University New Orleans in 2009 with a Bachelor’s in Fine Arts, with an emphasis in painting and printmaking. I began teaching painting classes while selling my own paintings. At this time, I began doing pet portrait commissions in order to pay for my Dachshund’s back surgery and the portraits became immensely popular. I still currently paint pet portraits by commission and they can appear as they are or attired in period costume.

In addition to pet portraits by commission, my art is heavily influenced by New Orleans, nature, and folklore. My works range from a portrait series called “Folklore Muses” which depict various female folklore figures, watercolor skull and plant paintings, watercolor/pen and ink mixed media North Carolina bird paintings. I have a series of pyrography/paint mixed media paintings depicting skeletons in various settings.

My work straddles the border of dark and playful using skeletons, folkloric themes, and my sense of humor in my creations.

Catherine Twomey

Catherine Twomey wants to evoke in her art a deep, emotional response to the natural world and a compulsion to try to protect a world increasingly in need of protection. Twomey practiced as a medical illustrator, garnering many industry awards over the years.

Twomey eventually responded to an internal calling to create her own, personal art in her own style. Encouraged by early successes such as being juried into and winning national competitions, Twomey became known for her unique ability to interpret the extraordinary influence of the natural world. Her intimate, on-site absorption of a place and time is reimagined into complex works designed to focus on the overwhelming need to protect the sacred places of nature.

Artist’s Statement:

The majesty and beauty of the fragile earth is a muse – if I can capture its depth, energy and preciousness, I can share that and heighten awareness of its fleeting uniqueness. Through my work I draw attention to a world well worth saving and respecting. Ultimately, I want my work to elicit a positive, meditative response in the viewer, leaving them with positive feelings about the earth and its extraordinarily fragile beauty.

Jill Pam

I love paper, always have. In 2018, I began playing with the use of a hole puncher, some magazines and glue. It felt a bit like mosaic meets jigsaw puzzle as I connected with my subjects one small hole punch at a time. A journalist, Jesse Kirsch, referred to my work as modern day pointillism. To date I have created 17 portraits and each one has had meaning in my life (from Michelle Obama to Amanda Gorman). The background and frame of my pieces is equally important to me as the subject. I like to play with the background through a myriad of mixed mediums and bring the essence of my subject on to the canvas. Over a year ago, we moved South and nature became more of a focus for me. I connected with flowers and landscapes that became my subjects. They offer freedom of color and expression in a way different than portraits are able. Each piece can take me anywhere from 80-200 hours as each hole is carefully chosen, punched and laid onto the background.

I’m so grateful to be starting a life here in Asheville and seeing where new inspirations will take me on my artistic journey.

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